The U.S. national team will host its June 18 World Cup qualifier against Honduras at Real Salt Lake’s Rio Tinto Stadium, according to ESPN 700 radio in Salt Lake City.

Sporting News confirmed independently that one of the two home qualifiers scheduled for June will be in Utah. Now ESPN 700’s Bill Riley has pinpointed which one. The Americans will kick off the month at Jamaica on June 7 and will host Panama four days later. Seattle’s CenturyLink Field is rumored to be the site of that match.

The U.S. national team will host its June 18 World Cup qualifier against Honduras at Real Salt Lake’s Rio Tinto Stadium. (AP Photo)

Neither U.S. Soccer nor Real Salt Lake answered a request for comment from MLSSoccer.com, which reiterated a previous report that Rio Tinto also was considered for the March 22 qualifier scheduled for Dick’s Sporting Goods Park outside Denver.

The Honduras game will be the national team’s second at Rio Tinto. The U.S. defeated El Salvador, 2-1, in a World Cup qualifier in September ’09. The stadium, which opened in the fall of ’08, also hosted the ’09 MLS All-Star game and the second leg of the ’11 CONCACAF Champions League finals.

Assuming Seattle and Salt Lake City get the June games, that leaves the Sept. 10 showdown with Mexico and an Oct. 11 match vs. Jamaica still up for grabs. Columbus, Ohio, long has been expected to host its fourth consecutive U.S.-Mexico qualifier, leaving Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan., as the frontrunner to stage the Jamaica game.

“I think you will see us play in this round in five MLS venues and four soccer-specific stadiums,” U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati said last month. “I think that is how it is shaping up. And none of the soccer-specific venues will be in New Jersey or in Los Angeles and so on. ... We will play generally in venues where the U.S. team has been successful in World Cup qualifying before.”

The U.S. will close out the Hexagonal—the five-team, double-round-robin competition that will send three automatic qualifiers to the 2014 World Cup—in Panama on Oct. 15. The Americans are 0-1-0 after dropping last month’s opener in Honduras. ESPN 700 also reported on Tuesday that Rio Tinto is in line to host the U.S. during the first round of July’s CONCACAF Gold Cup. The biennial continental championship will take a back seat to the Hex this year and Klinsmann isn’t expected to bring a full-strength squad. It remains a high-profile tournament, however, and will be played in 13 markets across the U.S, including seven NFL stadiums.

On Wednesday in Chicago, the site of the July 28 Gold Cup final, CONCACAF will unveil the groups and schedule for the 12-team event. Sports Illustrated reported that the U.S. also is expected to play group-stage games in Portland, Ore., and Hartford, Conn. Its quarterfinal game would be in Baltimore and both semifinals are expected to be staged at Cowboys Stadium outside Dallas.